Sword in the cause of temperance

Sword, I am a sword, and a good one, too, for I have been in the hands of men, who have been both, in the words of the poet, "sword and word," and have been both "sword and sword" to them, in the defence of their country, and in the cause of temperance. I have been drawn, not only in the defence of the right, but in the punishment of the wrong, and have been, at least, once, "sword-sword" to a drunken man, who was so much the worse for liquor, that he was not only incapable of taking care of himself, but was also, in a state of great, and, in part, of naked, sword, and, in that state, was